PA Minister of Religious Affairs: Israel "plans to destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque and establish the alleged Temple in its place"

PA Ministry of Foreign Affairs in official statement: Israeli PM Netanyahu's plan is "to destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque and build the alleged Temple"

Fatah youth movement encourages more conflict, calls for "widening confrontations with the occupation"; if Jerusalem is "harmed," "it means opening the gates of hell before the occupiers"

PA and Fatah emphasize need for Palestinian "defense" of "Arab and Islamic Jerusalem"

PA government "demands Islamic nation notice real danger for Al-Aqsa Mosque, [which] obligates Muslims throughout the world to act"

Despite Israel's decision to remove its security measures at the Temple Mount on July 24, Palestinian Authority leaders continue to provoke anger and instill fear in Palestinians by repeating the libel that the Al-Aqsa Mosque and Jerusalem are "in danger," and that Israel wants to "destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque" in order to "build the alleged Temple." The PA government stressed the need for Palestinian "defense" of "Arab and Islamic Jerusalem."

On the same day that Israel started to remove the metal detectors it had put up following a terror attack in which two Israeli border policemen were murdered on the Temple Mount, the PA Minister of Religious Affairs repeated the libel that "Al-Aqsa is in danger" on official PA TV:

Jordanian Journalist In Omani Daily: In Middle Ages, Jewish Scholars Instructed To Use Non-Jews' Blood To Prepare Matza; Today They Incite Soldiers To Murder PalestiniansIn a July 9, 2017 article in the Omani daily Al-Watan, journalist Faiz Rashid, a Palestinian of Jordanian origin, repeated the medieval libel that the Jews murdered Christian children to use their blood to make matza, as well as the Damascus blood libel of 1840. Citing numerous antisemitic writings authored or translated over the years in the Arab world, Rasheed presented detailed descriptions of the Jews' alleged use of blood as part of this ritual. He added that, just as the Medieval Jewish scholars called for the murder of non-Jews, today's Jewish scholars incite Israeli soldiers to murder Palestinians. Rasheed described Israel as a "fascist entity" and rejected the possibility of making peace with it.Turkish State-Owned Network Airs Television Drama Series Depicting Jews As Murderous And ConspiratorialOne alleged plot against the sultan that is depicted in the series is that of Theodor Herzl, and of Jews in general, is their pursuit of the establishment of the state of Israel, and their scheming, deception, and cruelty in attempting to achieve this end. In the series, a ruthless Christian priest-turned-assassin, Hiram, helps Herzl stir up revolt in Istanbul, and British spies pose as Arabs in an attempted false-flag attack against Jews, planned by Herzl.CALIFORNIA SERMON: IMAM AMMAR SHAHIN PRAYS TO ALLAH TO TURN JERUSALEM AND PALESTINE INTO A GRAVEYARD FOR THE JEWS AND LIBERATE THE AL-AQSA MOSQUE FROM 'THEIR FILTH'In a Friday sermon delivered at the Islamic Center of Davis in northern California on July 14, the center's Egyptian-born Imam Ammar Shahin said that the "wicked Jews" were prohibiting prayer at the Al-Aqsa Mosque and prayed to Allah to "liberate the Al-Aqsa Mosque from the filth of the Jews." Imam Shahin also said: "Oh Allah, destroy them and do not spare their young or their elderly... Oh Allah, turn Jerusalem and Palestine into a graveyard for the Jews."AL-AZHAR PROFESSOR AHMAD KARIMA: THE JEWS ARE WARMONGERS AND PLOTTERS BY NATURE; WAGE ARMED JIHAD AGAINST THE ZIONIST GANGSpeaking on Palestinian Authority TV on July 20, Al-Azhar University Professor of Islamic Law Ahmad Karima said that the Jewish tribes in Yathrib had plotted against the Prophet Muhammad and that "Allah told us about their transgressions – their slaying of prophets and their outstanding hostility." He further said that the "Zionist gang" was "raised on aggression, theft, and plundering" and that "armed jihad" should be waged against them.FRIDAY SERMON IN LEBANON: THE JEWS ARE TREACHEROUS, DECEITFUL, SPITEFUL, AND EVIL, MAY ALLAH DESTROY THEM AND THEIR SUPPORTERSIn a July 21 Friday sermon delivered at the Abu Bakr Al-Siddiq Mosque in the Al-Buss refugee camp in Lebanon, Sheikh Hassan Diab said that the Jews were prophet slayers who were transformed into apes and pigs by Allah after they incurred His wrath. "It is not surprising that they attack and close the Al-Aqsa Mosque," said Diab, who prayed that Allah would "destroy the Jews and their supporters" and "kill them down to the last one."CALIFORNIA IMAM MAHMOUD HARMOUSH PRAYS FOR ALLAH TO DESTROY THE JEWS: THEY ARE AFTER MECCA AND MEDINAIn a July 21 Friday sermon delivered at the Islamic Center of Riverside, California, Sheikh Mahmoud Harmoush prayed to Allah to "destroy the unjust tyrants and the occupiers" and to "turn them into booty in the hands of the Muslims." The Syrian-born Sheikh Harmoush, who has been living in the U.S. since the 1980s and received academic degrees in California and West Virginia, said that the Jews had concocted a plot to take over Palestine and would be demanding Mecca and Medina and "most of the Middle East" next. "Allah wants us to have jihad in our lives, no matter what and where we are," said Sheikh Harmoush. "Wake up, it is time to be a Muslim. Prayer is not the only thing," he said. CALIFORNIA FRIDAY SERMON: IMAM AMMAR SHAHIN CITES ANTISEMITIC HADITH, PRAYS FOR ANNIHILATION OF JEWS, AND CALLS TO LIBERATE AL-AQSA MOSQUE FROM THEIR 'FILTH'On July 21, the Egyptian-born American preacher Ammar Shahin delivered a Friday sermon at the Islamic Center of Davis, northern California, where he serves as Imam. In it he cited an antisemitic hadith, according to which the Muslims would fight the Jews on Judgment Day, and prayed to Allah to "liberate the Al-Aqsa Mosque from the filth of the Jews" and to "annihilate them down to the very last one," not sparing any of them. "Oh Allah, make this happen by our hands. Let us play a part in this," he prayed in the sermon, which was posted on the Davis Masjid YouTube channel.ADVISOR TO MAHMOUD ABBAS WARNS OF GLOBAL RELIGIOUS WAR IN FRIDAY SERMON: THE WORLD WILL LIVE TO REGRET IT IF IT DOES NOT REIN ISRAEL INIn a July 21 Friday sermon, Sheikh Mahmoud Habbash, advisor to PA President Mahmoud Abbas on Religious and Islamic Affairs, directed a message toward the entire world, saying that world peace was in danger and that "if you do not act to rein in that racist aggression, which wants to ignite a religious war that will engulf the planet in its entirety... [you] will bite [your] fingers in regret for having been remiss." The sermon, in which he called upon all the Palestinian factions to unite and to "trample all [the Israeli] measures and metal detectors underfoot," was broadcast on the official Palestinian Authority TV channel.

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Text on cartoon: "Victory is better than sleep" - apparently meant to encourage Palestinians to celebrate their "victory" into the night.

[Official Fatah Facebook page, July 27, 2017]

Israel's decision to take down the metal detectors at the entrances to the Temple Mount is being portrayed by Fatah as a decision made out of fear.The cartoon above, which shows Palestinians at the Temple Mount by the Dome of the Rock cheering in victory as metal detectors run away from them in fear, Fatah cartoon:

Temple Mount crisis saw PM failing under pressure and showed Abbas ready to go to war (The Times of Israel)Unfortunately, one cannot argue with the conclusion of Jewish Home leader Naftali Bennett and his friends on the right: Israel’s deterrent capability has indeed been harmed in this crisis. The Palestinians — the public and the decision-makers — sense weakness on the part of the State of Israel, especially its prime minister. Sadly, nonetheless, the government’s capitulation became a necessity given the looming threat of bloodshed. Sometimes one has to know when to withdraw.TEMPLE MOUNT IS ‘FOR MUSLIMS AND PALESTINIANS ONLY’ (Jerusalem Post)“This place is holy to Muslims alone, no one else,” insisted Ayad al-Ayoubi, a resident of the Muslim Quarter and one of the worshipers.“The people responsible for this place are Muslims, and if they [Muslims] want to make changes, they can, but the government of Israel is a government of occupation and according to international law they occupied this land and they have no rights to change these things here in Jerusalem.”

Fatah: "With our blood we will thwart the Zionists' plans #No_to_the_cameras" (PMW)Even though Israel today is removing the metal detectors from the entrances to the Temple Mount, which were placed following a terror attack there on July 14, 2017, in which 2 Israelis were murdered, Abbas' Fatah Movement is still protesting against Israel's security measures and vowing to "thwart the Zionists' plans" with "our blood":Text on image (above): "The surveillance and espionage cameras are a violation of freedom of worshipFreedom of worship is limited by the intelligence camerasWith our blood we will thwart the Zionists' plans#No_to_the_cameras"[Official Fatah Facebook page, July 25, 2017]Text on post and image (right): "No to the occupationNo to the metal detectorsNo to the cameras#The_three_no's_of_Jerusalem"[Official Fatah Facebook page, July 25,

“It is simply wrong to blame the Israeli government for wanting to protect those entering the Temple Mount after the recent killings,” European Coalition for Israel Founding Director Tomas Sandell said Monday night. “Metal detectors are today a part of standard security procedures at holy sites in the world, from the Vatican to Mecca. These measures are put in place simply in order to protect people and are not meant to deny anyone access.”

Likewise, Abbas' hypocrisy regarding "terror" is a continuation of his behavior in the past. While he refuses to condemn terror attacks against Israeli civilians, he repeatedly proclaims to the world that he is against terror. Less than two days after the horrific Palestinian attack, Abbas - ignoring the attack altogether - even emphasized to Palestinian scholars just how much Palestinians are against terror:

"We, the State of Palestine, are convinced that terrorism must be fought everywhere, and we have at least 83 protocols with various countries around the world to combat violence and terrorism."[WAFA (English edition), official PA news agency, July 23, 2017]

But in the Palestinian perspective there is "terror," and there is "terror."Just two days before Abbas made this statement, a 70-year-old Israeli man, his 36-year-old son and 46-year-old daughter, were brutally stabbed to death in their home while having dinner. They were celebrating the birth of a grandchild. The wife of the 70-year-old was severely injured and remains in hospital, while the wife of the son managed to hide with their children upstairs. A neighbor who heard screams shot and wounded the terrorist who was captured.

This attack has not been condemned publicly by any Palestinian leader. Even more significantly, when Fatah Central Committee member Muhammad Al-Madani was "accused" on social media of having condemned the attack, his office hurried to deny this, instead threatening to sue those who claimed he had condemned the killing of the 3 Israeli civilians:

"The office of Fatah Movement Central Committee member and Chairman of the PLO Committee for Interaction [with Israeli Society] Muhammad Al-Madani denied a fake news item that was published on several questionable pages on social media. It was claimed that it was a quote of Al-Madani from an alleged interview with a Hebrew radio station, in which he condemned the operation (i.e., terror attack) that took place two days ago [July 21, 2017] in an Israeli settlement [Halamish] in the West Bank, in which 3 settlers were killed.The office explained yesterday in a notice that Al-Madani did not speak with any local media outlet, Arab or Israeli, regarding the latest events. It was also said in the statement that 'Al-Madani will sue those spreading this fake and false news everywhere.'"[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, July 23, 2017]

In this undated photo provided on July 19, 2017, an IDF soldier feeds a Syrian baby in Israel as part of the army's humanitarian aid program to assist Syrians impacted by the civil war in their country. (IDF spokesman)

To put it really crudely then, Arabs killed Arabs at a holy place, the Jews are trying to ensure that it doesn’t happen again, and the Arab world is furious with the Jews about it.And no compromise agreed to by Israel today could compare in its repercussions to the impact of that agreement 50 years ago, which has empowered a Palestinian and wider Muslim false narrative that asserts the Jews actually have no connection to the Mount, no history there, no legitimacy there — and by extension no sovereign legitimacy in Israel either. Why did defense minister Moshe Dayan’s concession on June 10, 1967, fuel that false narrative? Because, the way it was perceived in much of the Muslim world, the Jews could not and would not have relinquished their authority over the site if it truly constituted the most sacred physical focal point of their faith. Israel’s restraint, its religious realpolitik, in other words, has come to be regarded as proof of our illegitimacy. And of our duplicity. We were not the returning liberators; we were interlopers, who could and would be resisted until we returned to whence we ostensibly came.

... Is Friedman seriously making an equivalence between the Palestinian president, the representative of his people (currently in the twelfth year of a four year term of office), and a minority of Israeli settlers whose extremist actions are rejected by the majority of Israelis?While Mahmoud Abbas’s statements in Arabic and failure to condemn terrorism fuel Palestinian violence and extremism and come from the mainstream of Palestinian politics, any criminal acts carried out by a minority of Israeli settlers are the work of fringe extremists.Since when did the Israeli state support or encourage settlers to carry out acts of terror against Palestinians?The PA, on the other hand, gives financial support to Palestinian terrorists and their families. And while Palestinian terrorism is unfortunately an all too common occurrence, this level of extremism simply doesn’t exist in the Israeli mainstream.Why should bringing attention to Palestinian incitement be a “distraction?” On the contrary, Palestinian incitement is a critical factor preventing progress towards peace. ...

Contents:
Introduction:
- Facts and figures about PA payments to terrorists and their families
- PA claim: Salaries are social welfare
- The PA vows to continue paying salaries to terrorists

Part 1: 12 facts that refute the PA's claim that its payments to terrorists are social welfare

1. PA law defines the payments to prisoners as salaries
2. PA officials and prisoners' representatives deny that salaries are social welfare
3. Prisoners, and not their families, have complete control over the transfer of the salaries
4. Salaries rise based on years spent in prison and not based on financial need
5. Social welfare considerations add only small payments to the base salary
6. Salaries to prisoners are treated with the same status as salaries to civil servants.
7. Prisoners pay income tax on their salaries, like all government employees
8. Prisoners' salaries are higher than salaries of PA civil servants
9. Payments to families of terrorist "Martyrs" are higher than social welfare for those in need
10. Released prisoners continue to receive monthly salaries
11. PA officials openly declare that prisoners receive salaries because they are "heroes"
12. Released prisoner demanded undiminished salary because: "I personally killed Jews"

Eid Al-Fitr Sermon by Advisor to PA President Abbas: Not a Single Millimeter of the Western Wall Will Fall under Non-Palestinian Sovereignty (MEMRI)In a recent sermon, Mahmoud Al-Habbash, advisor to PA President Mahmoud Abbas on Religious and Islamic Affairs, said that the Al-Buraq Wall (the Western Wall) was part of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and "more important than all the others." "The Al-Buraq Wall, the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and Jerusalem, the capital of the State of Palestine - not a single millimeter of them may fall under any sovereignty other than that of the Palestinian people," he said. The sermon, marking Eid Al-Fitr on June 25, was broadcast by the official Palestinian Authority TV channel and was attended by President Abbas.

UNESCO RULES CAVE OF THE PATRIARCHS AS PALESTINIAN (Jerusalem Post)Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu slammed the vote as another “delirious” act by UNESCO.“This time, they determined that the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron is a Palestinian heritage site, meaning that it is not a Jewish site and that it is in danger."“Not a Jewish site?” he asked. “After all, who is buried there? Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, Sarah, Rebecca and Leah, our patriarchs and matriarchs,” Netanyahu said.“The site is in danger? Only in places where Israel exists, like in Hebron, is freedom of worship guaranteed for all,” he said.“Everywhere else in the Middle East, mosques, churches and synagogues are being destroyed,” Netanyahu said. “We’ll continue to safeguard the Cave of the Patriarchs, freedom of religion and truth."Israel reacts with disgust and disdain to UNESCO Hebron decision

PALESTINIANS WELCOME UNESCO DECISION ON HEBRON’S OLD CITY“Despite the fierce Israeli campaign, spreading of lies, the distortion and falsification of facts regarding Palestinian rights, the world approved our right to register Hebron and the Ibrahimi Mosque as a world heritage site under Palestinian sovereignty,” Maliki told Wafa, the official PA news site, in a statement.“UNESCO’s vote to include Hebron on its world heritage sites’ list is another affirmation of our full right to Hebron and all the Palestinian land,” Hamas spokesman Hazim Qassim said in a statement. “The voting process reveals the falsity of the Israeli narrative and the lie of its propaganda; all the occupation’s attempts to upend facts will not succeed in the face of our people holding onto its right to its land.”

Palestinians overwhelmingly oppose Abbas pressure on Gaza(The Times of Israel)Since April, Abbas has cut funds for Israeli-supplied electricity to Gaza by 35 percent, reduced by one-third the salaries of tens of thousands of PA employees in Gaza, and reduced the medical budget for Gaza by a reported 90%. On Tuesday, he forced over 6,000 PA employees Gaza into early retirement.A poll by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research found that 84% of Palestinians oppose cutting the electricity and 88% oppose reducing the salaries to government employees.Abbas’s government has admitted these measures are aimed at forcing Hamas to give up control in Gaza, which it took over in a violent conflict with the PA-controlling Fatah party in 2007.The poll found that 78% think the strategy will be ineffective in forcing Hamas to cede control. Only 13% said the measures will work. ...... The poll found that the Hamas-Dahlan deal is far more popular in Gaza, where 61% support it, than in the West Bank, where only 29% were in favor.

"'Even if I will have to leave my position, I will not compromise on the salary (rawatib) of a Martyr (Shahid) or a prisoner, as I am the president of the entire Palestinian people, including the prisoners, the Martyrs, the injured, the expelled, and the uprooted.'[PA] President Mahmoud Abbas."
[Official Fatah Facebook page, July 2, 2017]